Funny how all these pakis and negros in the UK have knives, stun guns, real guns etc but the Fire arms act allows no law abbiden citizens to have anything. Women can't even protect themselves with nothing.

So people who say UK is the little sister of America are exaggerating.

I've steered well clear of Balham for thirty years - it was bad enough then. I was working nearby at the time, and I was walking down Balham High Road early evening, and there was a disturbance inside a cafe/bar that suddenly spilled out on to the pavement. A white face in the wrong place at the wrong time, meant I ended up being hit in the face with a frying pan.
I see today, assaults are more likely to involve knives.